Baby Bling background
Baby Bling is a Mom & Mom Shop owned and operated by women since 2005. Led by Summer Harris, Cyndi Lowry, and Millie DeGraff, Baby Bling prides itself on keeping their manufacturing local and helping the women in their community. All of the headbands are handmade by creative, talented people who share their vision of combining comfort, style, and quality into beautiful accessories for beautiful babies.
Summer Harris, owner and founder, describes how it started:
“Twelve and a half years ago I started Baby Bling with my mom in a loft above her garage, and it’s grown now today to 15 employees at the warehouse, two new business partners for me, and tens of thousands of babies wearing Baby Bling.”
Today the brand reaches customers well beyond its own site:
“We sell Baby Bling products on our own retail website, babyblingbows.com. We also sell at over 900 specialty stores nationwide. We’re the number one selling children’s product at Nordstrom nationwide. We also manufacture private label for several large retailers. We do department stores, other department stores, including Von Maur and Bloomingdale’s.”
Growing beyond doing the books herself
For years, Summer handled the accounting on her own:
“For many, many years I was my own accountant, just kind of making my way through QuickBooks, reconciling my statements, and would just send that file over to my tax accountant once a year. I did that for probably the first ten years of the business.”
LedgerGurus results
LedgerGurus promotes team success with Baby Bling by providing quality accounting in expense and income tracking, accounts payable and receivable, bank account reconciliations, payroll management, inventory tracking, cost of goods sold calculations, and sales tax filing. We have created transparency around sales-related activities on Baby Bling’s multiple selling channels and were critical in identifying and implementing new tools to automate financial and operating functions. Our team creates monthly financials for Baby Bling, which allows us to advise them on good business practice and profitability.
Summer points to the team’s ecommerce experience:
“Having LedgerGurus have so much experience in ecommerce has been really helpful.”
That experience shows up when she’s planning ahead:
“They just can kind of see the bigger picture, all the way down the road.”
It includes hands-on help with pricing and margins:
“When I ask a question how we need to price something, or how we need to break it up and offering so much inventory to wholesale versus retail, and how we can kind of come up with the margin at the end of all of that that we really want to hit, and what that margin should be, that’s another really hands-on thing.”
Recommending LedgerGurus
Summer would recommend LedgerGurus, and response time is the reason:
“I would most definitely recommend LedgerGurus. I mean, the number one thing for me is their response time. If I have a question or a concern or any type of communication, I hear from Bri or Brittany almost immediately. It’s amazing. I just feel like they honestly care about everything that we’re doing here. They’re so amazing about answering questions and not making you feel dumb, or like you should have already known this, or this is just basic business principle. Everything they do for us, I just get this feeling that they honestly want to see us succeed.”
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